释义 |
meritocracymer‧i‧toc‧ra‧cy /ˌmerəˈtɒkrəsi $ -ˈtɑː-/ noun (plural meritocracies) - But it was possible to turn the critique of meritocracy against the schools themselves.
- He was evidence that the trading floor was a meritocracy.
- However, in a meritocracy, those at the bottom are clearly inferior.
- In a meritocracy, talent and ability are efficiently syphoned out of the lower strata.
- In the collaborative meritocracy, people who are talented enough and committed enough are rightly seen as indispensable.
- Secondly it is a declaration that meritocracy does not operate by default.
- The meritocracy that reigned among students thus functioned hardly at all within the faculty.
- The institutional racism model thus overlaps with an equal opportunities model which demands self-conscious meritocracy in spirit and in procedures.
► Policiesagitprop, nounapartheid, nounclass struggle, nouncollectivism, nouncolonialist, nouncommunism, nounconsciousness raising, nounconsumerism, noundemocrat, noundemocratic, adjectivedemocratize, verbdenationalize, verbdesegregate, verbdoctrine, noundogma, noundove, noundovish, adjectivedrive, nounfiat, nounhawk, nouninternationalism, noun-ism, suffixism, nounland reform, nounMachiavellian, adjectivemanifesto, nounMarxism, nounmeritocracy, nounnihilism, nounnon-aggression, nounnon-intervention, nounnon-partisan, adjectivenon-violence, nounopen-door policy, nounpacifism, nounpacifist, nounparty line, nounpassive resistance, nounperestroika, nounpolitical action committee, nounprivate member's bill, nounprogramme, nounradical, adjectivereaction, nounreformist, adjectiverevisionism, nounsocial democracy, nounsocial engineering, nounsocialism, nounsocialist, adjectivesocialist, nounsubsidiarity, nounwomen's lib, noun 1[countable] a social system that gives the greatest power and highest social positions to people with the most ability2the meritocracy the people who have power in a meritocracy → aristocracy—meritocratic /ˌmerətəˈkrætɪk◂/ adjective |